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Re: compression problem...

• Posted by Kat <gertie at PELL.NET> Sep 25, 2001
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On 25 Sep 2001, at 15:04, Sabal.Mike at notations.com wrote:

> 
> Maybe I'm missing something here, but it looks like all you're trying to do is
> left-shift every word.  I don't see where the compression would come in that. 
> Also, if you're trying to bit-shift yourself into a number of null-bytes, this
> method would only work on byte=#80.  

Ditto.

> It seems what you'd rather do for this simple algorithm is compress 8-bit
> bytes
> into 7-bit bytes by bit-shifting across the entire file, not just a single
> word.
>  It would guarantee you a minimum 12.5% compression, and leave a greater
>  chance
> of null or further compressable bytes.  It might look something like this:

This would be useful only on those languages that use only the lower 7 bits, 
too, how many languages would this leave out?
 
Kat